The purchase of the Chinese holding Leyou Technologies for $1.3 billion was one of Tencent’s largest investments last year. He has IP assets such as Warframe and Gears Tactics. However, in recent months, key employees have left Leyou en masse. And because of several cancelled projects, the holding itself has turned into almost an ordinary support studio.Warframe

Details from the trial of Epic Games and Apple continue to emerge. This time they are about Google. It turned out that the company was thinking about buying Fortnite authors with the help of Tencent. She also paid smartphone manufacturers to abandon third-party marketplaces and gave at least “hundreds of millions of dollars” to popular developers so that they would not leave the Play Store.

Founded last year, the gaming agency GYLD enters the Russian market. It positions itself as a company that connects developers with suitable publishers and investors to finance games. Important: agency services are paid only if a contract is concluded with a publisher.Co-founders of the agency Lex Suurland and Fabian Malabello, photo: GYLD

A new game studio, Storms Studio, founded by the startup of the same name, has appeared in Singapore. She will deal with instant and hypercausal titles. To do this, the company has already concluded a strategic cooperation with Voodoo.AZ Run

Two weeks ago, for the first time in 33 years, all 30 places in the Japanese bestseller chart were occupied by games for one console. It became the Nintendo Switch. The Gaming Bolt portal has found out why this console has become more attractive to local developers and why they are no longer eager to cooperate with Sony.

Chinese authorities continue to regulate local technology companies. Today it became known that the government now has a seat on the board of directors of ByteDance. The unprecedented decision made experts again concerned about the prospects of investing in the Celestial market.The deal was concluded on April 30, but it has only become publicly known now.

People Can Fly could count on a percentage of Outriders’ sales if the project’s revenue would cover development costs. However, the studio claims that it has not received any payments from Square Enix since April. Although initially the publisher was pleased with the results of the shooter.Outriders

Sometimes creating a dream game leads to nothing. This is a reason to look back and understand what went wrong. In your column on App2Top.ru Dmitry Shubeikin, co-founder and director of Deus Craft, told how his company, which has always specialized in casual games, tried to make an online shooter.

The French publisher Homa Games decided to go beyond the hyper-casual niche. The company has announced plans to engage in mobile puzzles and the genre of board games.

Phil Spencer shared his vision of the development of the gaming industry. The head of Xbox spoke about the senselessness of console wars, the importance of user content and lowering the threshold for entering gaming. He also explained how Microsoft intends to make video games accessible to all people in the world.Phil Spencer, photo: eVRydayVR

Electronic Arts shareholders rejected the company’s new plan to pay annual bonuses to top managers. According to Bloomberg, this happened against the background of a protest by several groups of investors. Several EA shareholders voted against the new bonus program, including Trillium Asset Management, Calvert Investments, New York City Funds and CalSTRS and Calpers.

The “Alliance of Workers” ABK (Activision Blizzard King) told Kotaku about the conditions in which the company’s testers work. According to employees, QA specialists receive almost the lowest salary and at the same time are forced to work overtime regularly. They also do not have access to benefits, and representatives of minorities face discrimination.Overwatch

Yesterday, the creators of Journey to the Savage Planet founded a new studio Raccoon Logic. However, a photo of employees unexpectedly received a lot of attention on social networks. The studio was criticized for depicting only white men. This led to a discussion about the problem of personnel diversity in the gaming industry.

South Korean gaming companies are increasingly looking towards the West. But they are prevented from achieving international success by the “clan” way of the legal system in the country, believes Chang Byung-gyu, the founder of Krafton.

Several key Blizzard and Respawn Entertainment developers lost their jobs yesterday. We are talking, among other things, about the leading game designer Diablo IV, who was indirectly involved in the ongoing harassment scandal. Game designer Apex Legends has also resigned from his post. This is due to his statements of 14 years ago, in which racism and sexism were found.Dismissal of the leading game designer of Apex Legends

Natives of AppQuantum have announced the launch of their own game publishing house. A new company under the label 10k Riders Publishing is going to launch mobile freeplay titles. 8 studios have already been announced among the partners.

John Hanke, founder and CEO of Niantic, spoke out against digital metaverses. He called them a “dystopian nightmare” and offered an alternative idea for the development of this concept. We are talking about endowing the real world with additional digital information using AR technologies.John Hanke, photo: TechCrunch

Until 2020, the Australian government almost did not support video game developers. Because of this, all AAA studios were closed in the country and there was a shortage of specialists. Ron Curry, head of the local Association of Interactive Games and Entertainment (IGEA), told what the authorities are doing now to fix the situation. Among the measures are a 30% tax deduction and a simplified procedure for obtaining work visas.

Hideo Kojima is sure that CDs will disappear soon. He believes that in the future, games, movies, music and books will completely switch to digital format. That’s just according to the game designer, it carries certain risks. For example, due to unforeseen circumstances, gamers may one day lose access to digital collections.